I’ve decided to stop selling my “Ductwork Installation Guide” and concentrate my effort on rewriting the text in the textbook! So, I’m looking for help and I’m inviting any of you to participate!
And here are some messages to the visitors of my website:
1. If you are a heating contractor this message is for you:
I know that not every one of you is busy or tired to the point so you don’t want to even hear about HVAC in your free time. Some of you guys are very active for example on HVAC-TALK forum website. Yes, I understand you trying to help people to resolve their issues and answer some of their questions, but does this forum help you?
I like the saying one of the members of that community uses every time he’s doing the next post: "If you don't spend money on training your techs, because they might leave, what happens to your business if they stay"! If you agree with the saying can you answer a question: “Want do you do to train your techs?
We can improve my “Ductwork Installation Guide” together and use it as a powerful tool in training a new generation of the HVAC techs. As a boss of your company you can make it mandatory for apprentices and even for experienced workers and as a result your business will get a big boost!
2. If you are a HVAC technician this message is for you:
You may also have a lot of experience and bright ideas of your own! It’s time for you to help me out and share you ideas with everybody else in the country! We can make a new “Ductwork Installation Guide” together and try to sell it together. You are definitely a reputable member of your company and in your community and you can promote it in your area where you live!
3. If you are an apprentice in this business this message is for you:
Of course you are getting some kind of training. But look there are no uniform, comprehensive, nation wide systems teaching how to run the ductwork. Every company tries to run things in their own way! You are maybe lucky if you have a good HVAC technician as a teacher. But if not you may try to find a text book, however I have already done this for you and found out that there are still no good books for this type of installation! You can find dozens of books about AC, Refrigeration, Service, System Design but almost nothing about the Ductwork Installation. Just recently I’ve found a book called “Tips for residential HVAC installation” written by Larry Gardner. This is only a book which at least trying to address this issue. However I wouldn’t recommend buying this book. Unfortunately I can’t prove my point by publishing quotes from the above book because they can sue me for that, but believe me this book is not worth your money! Picture this: old guy running around the town with the door in his truck which he uses in many ways, one of them to make offsets verses using a formula. All his 41 tips don’t have any system in it and its looks like that after a couple of beers he’s recalling something from his daily experience and inserting it in the text of the book. Of course there are some useful tips but the book itself has rather observational then educational purpose! If you don’t trust my opinion you can spend $30 for it; it’s always helpful to have several sources of information available.
But if you want to get the real thing you can subscribe for my “Guide” right now for a discount price of $60 (subscription is free of charge), or you can buy any chapter you choose for $3 + $0.30 + $0.09 = $3.39 ($0.39: Pay Pal charges) and I will set the chapter on this website for you. After you receive a link from me you may ask as many questions regarding the chapter as you want. In order to make your choice you have to go on the “Chapter by Chapter Description of the Contents” page.